04:26 01.04.2019

Zelensky leads with 30.03%, followed by Poroshenko with 16.75% as CEC processes 19.57% of voting protocols

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Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky leads with 30.03% of the vote, as the country's Central Election Commission has processed 19.57% of March 31 voting protocols.

Incumbent President Petro Poroshenko ranks second with 16.75% and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko is third with 13.37%.

Some 11.35% of Ukrainians voted for candidate from the Opposition Platform - For Life Yuriy Boiko, while leader of the Civil Position Party Anatoliy Hrytsenko had 6.97% and leader of the Radical Party Oleh Liashko scored 5.85%.

Ex-chief of Ukraine's SBU Security Service Ihor Smeshko had 5.29%, candidate from the Opposition Bloc Party Oleksandr Vilkul had 4.18%, and 1.65% voted for member of the Svoboda Party Ruslan Koshulynsky.

Independent MP Yuriy Tymoshenko had 0.62% of the vote, candidate from the UKROP Party Oleksandr Shevchenko scored 0.52%, candidate from the Spravedlyvist (Justice) Social and Political Movement Valentyn Nalyvaichenko got 0.23%.

The remaining candidates scored less than 0.2% of the vote each.

Some 1.17% of ballots were declared invalid.

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